Next week: the 6th Binaries in the Solar System (Binaries VI), in Nice, FR 15 to 17 September 2025 https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/ Some highlights (I admit I’m biased here):https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_BAM_1.pdf Monday – 15 SeptemberRachel Cueva Modeling the Dynamical Survivability of Binary Asteroids in… Read More »Binaries In The Solar System Meeting, 2025
The Europlanet-AAS Division for Planetary Science meeting for Friday, Sep. 12 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM10Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions (sample return, analogs, analytical workflow etc.) Low-temperature reflectance spectra of meteorites:… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, V
The details on our interstellar friend keep filling in, now that we have tracking over a nonnegligible observing arc: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.05181[Submitted on 5 Sep 2025]Gray, Z. Bagnulo, S. Borisov, G. et al. Extreme Negative Polarisation… Read More »ATLAS Keeps Tabs on ATLAS…
The meeting for Thursday, Sep. 11 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM8Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces The potential of in-situ THz-spectroscopy to resolve the subsurface structure of Comets – Linus Stoeckli et al.… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, IV
In a few days, the Astronomical Society of Japan will hold its annual meeting, starting Sep 9: www.asj.or.jp/en/activities/nenkai/info/ Ordinarily, this might fall below one’s radar, including mine… except: Terai, T. Yoshikawa, E Yoshikawa, M. Emergency by the Subaru Telescope on asteroid 2024 YR4, which… Read More »2025 ASJ Annual Meeting
The observation/publication cycle is getting into a groove: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.02813[Submitted on 4 Sep 2025]Frincke, T. T. Yaginuma, A. Noonan, J. W. et al. Near-Discovery SOAR Photometry of the Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS arxiv.org/abs/2509.03361[Submitted on 4… Read More »3I/ATLAS Tracking
The latest Research Notes of the AAS is September (vol. 9 #9). In it: Petrov, D. Estimation of the Albedo and Diameter of the Asteroid (16960) 1998 QS52 Using the Polarimetric Method Art 233 ae01a5de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la… Read More »Note, Paper: Two New in View
The joint Europlanet and AAS–DPS meeting, for this Tuesday (see also Day 1): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme Tuesday, 9 Sep SB10 Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres Cosmic dust in the heliosphere- Veerle Sterken CE4 Europlanet General Assembly TP8… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, II
It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
The characterization (and digitalization) continues: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.01647[Submitted on 1 Sep 2025]Salazar Manzano, L. E. Lin, H. W. Taylor, A. G. et al. Onset of CN Emission in 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Strong Carbon-Chain Depletion And now,… Read More »3I Cyanide Tri-Described